I’ve been slowly making some clickbank sales. Not really promoting them in any major way. Anyway I met the minimum requirement about 3 months ago for payment. By that I mean sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers, including at least one Visa card, and one MasterCard. (PayPal, re-bills and eCheck don’t count) I emailed them a few days ago asking why my check hadn’t been issued, and they replied saying that I didn’t meet the min requirement. I then wrote backing saying that I had clocked up 8 different sales since late 2006 all with different cards, including at least one Visa card, and one MasterCard. They replied again saying that I still hadn’t met the min requirment. I was now a little peed off, so I wrote to the them for the 3rd time, and I included details of each of the 8 transactions. Yesterday I got a mail from them apologising for their error, and that a cheque would be issued on the next issue date. All Im saying is don’t take their automatic word for it, if you feel you are due your first check.
Since ClickBank recieve loads of emails everyday, they probably reply with a general prewritten answer without even checking in most of the cases. Then, they only check something when they see that you are not the usual "newbie" that dosent know what it needs before they send you a check...
web_18designer is right. Basically, any big company does that, because if they spend so much time replying to every email, they will need lots of employees. Clickbank, Adwords, they both do that
I'm always a bit surprised with such posts. If meeting min requirements (sometimes for several months) is such a trouble for you as an affiliate than is it really good investment of time?
If you are steadily making sales then hitting the 5 sales target isn't that much of a hassle... But kudos for sticking to your guns and getting Clickbank to take notice